{{for|the other world event, similar to the East Asian holiday Mid-Autumn Festival|Harvest Festival}}

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'''Pilgrim's Bounty''' is a [[world event]] occurring in November, around the time of the American holiday [[wikipedia:Thanksgiving (United States)|Thanksgiving]]. Among the activities which occur are cooking, eating and sharingfood, food fights, and turkeyhunting.

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'''Pilgrim's Bounty''' is a [[world event]] occurring in November, around the time of the American holiday [[wikipedia:Thanksgiving (United States)|Thanksgiving]]. Among the activities which occur are cooking, feasting, food fights, and turkeyhunting. Bountiful tables are set up in towns and outside cities, filled with various types of food platters which players can interact with. Players can either eat the food themselves, or pass it around to other players seated at the table. These tables are also surrounded by various vendors and quest-giversrelated to the event.

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For the other world event, similar to the East Asian holiday Mid-Autumn Festival, see Harvest Festival.

Pilgrim's Bounty is a world event occurring in November, around the time of the American holiday Thanksgiving. Among the activities which occur are cooking, feasting, food fights, and turkey hunting. Bountiful tables are set up in towns and outside cities, filled with various types of food platters which players can interact with. Players can either eat the food themselves, or pass it around to other players seated at the table. These tables are also surrounded by various vendors and quest-givers related to the event.

Participating in this event and cooking these items is an excellent way of raising your cooking skill to 300 or above quickly and at low cost. The materials are inexpensive and available in practically unlimited quantities. The minimal required level starts at 1, and the recipes stay orange over a long range. Each recipe turns yellow only 10 levels below the requirement of the next recipe.

To level up your cooking from level 1, make 70 of the Spice Bread, followed by 70 of the Spice Bread Stuffing, then 70 of the Pumpkin Pie, and 65 of the other recipes (Sweet Potato, Chutney, and Turkey) in turn, learning each next recipe when it becomes available. While you are at it, the production will be enough for the quest chain and three sets of the dailies.

The Turkey recipe is still orange at 329 cooking skill, but you will need to go to Outland or Northrend to train Master level cooking before or at 300. The Turkey recipe doesn't turn gray until level 355 so it is an easy way to get your cooking all the way to Grand Master level.

This quest chain involves quantities of 5, and generally sends you from the city that has the ingredients to a different city. Actually making the items requested is often part of the objectives. This means that getting the foodstuffs from other characters isn't good enough. Nor does it help to make the items before you accept the quest.

The daily quests require you to either allocate some bag space between days, or spend extra travel time to pick up the ingredients. The quests are given by an NPC and require you to bring that NPC some food cooked from ingredients that are (except for stuffing) sold in a different city. They involve quantities of 20 (a full stack). By carrying some ingredients in your backpack overnight you can reduce the amount of travel required to complete the daily quests.

One choice is to stockpile the [Tangy Southfury Cranberries] and [Mulgore Sweet Potato] and start your day in Undercity before you deliver Undercity and Tirisfal Glades food to Orgrimmar and Thunder Bluff, restocking your cranberry and sweet potato hoard for the next day.

The other choice is to stockpile the [Wild Turkey] and [Ripe Tirisfal Pumpkin] and start your day in Thunder Bluff and then travel to Orgrimmar before you deliver sweet potatoes and cranberries to Undercity. Stock up on pumpkin and wild turkey in preparation for the next day.

One choice is to stockpile the [Tangy Wetland Cranberries] and [Teldrassil Sweet Potato] and start your day in Stormwind before you deliver Stormwind and Elwynn Forest food to Ironforge and Darnassus, restocking your cranberry and sweet potato hoard for the next day.

The other choice is to stockpile the [Wild Turkey] and [Ripe Elwynn Pumpkin] and start your day in Darnassus and then travel to Ironforge before you deliver sweet potatoes and cranberries to Stormwind. Stock up on pumpkin and wild turkey in preparation for the next day.